How to defend yourself against a banana

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.